PENTICOFF, O. S. 1876-1949

PENTICOFF, BARKLOW

Posted By: Tammy (email)
Date: 10/25/2016 at 08:24:44

O. S. Penticoff Gets Heart Attack Shoveling Snow

O. S. Penticoff suffered a heart attack while shoveling snow in front of his house in Grundy Center Sunday morning. He had been shoveling for some time when he felt dizziness coming on. He went into the house and shortly after collapsed on the floor. His wife who has been partially disabled since she suffered a stroke nearly two years ago, called a doctor at once and other help. He died within an hour. He would have been 73 years old next August.

Funeral services were held on Wednesday afternoon at the Coffman funeral home. The services were conducted by Rev. J. L. Pace, pastor of the Baptist church. Burial was in the Grundy Center cemetery.

Was Native of Illinois
Mr. Penticoff was born at Lanark, Ill., August 15, 1876, and spent the early years of his life there. On Oct. 20, 1897, he and Etta Barklow were married at Lanark. They resided there during the early years of their married life. In 1912 they came to Grundy Center, and excepting 2 years in Minnesota and Wellsburg, they resided at Grundy Center ever since.

Mr. Penticoff followed the carpenter trade during most of his active life. He served some time on the Grundy Center police force. He had two operations about two months ago that left him in a somewhat weakened condition and unable to stand the strain of shoveling snow.

Mr. and Mrs. Penticoff celebrated their fiftieth wedding anniversary on October 19th, 1947.

Surviving are the wife, two sons and three daughters. The sons are Theodore, Grundy Center, and John, San Francisco, who came here by plane to attend his father's funeral. The daughters are Mrs. Frank Grabinski, Waterloo, Mrs. Sidney Greany, Grundy Center, and Mrs. Verner Jensen, Dike. One daughter Lela, died in 1926. There are 10 grandchildren and one great-grandchild. Other surviving relatives are one brother, Rev. Oscar Penticoff, Humboldt, Ill., and one sister, Mrs. Laura Althafer, Pearl City, Ill.

--The Grundy Register (Grundy Center, Iowa), 17 February 1949, sec 2, pg 1